Contents

Bottling Shed, 1962 3 Toy Soldiers on a Window-sill 4 The Beginning of Colour 5 Ice Cream 7 Worse Than Nothing 8 Rita Hayworth Sleeping 9 Falcons Hunting 10 I Love Also 11 Wanting to Hold an Owl 12 Figs at Aghios Nikolaos 13 Son, Husband, Father 14 Cats on the Rampart 15 Sing the Shehecheyana 16 There Once was a Girl 17 As Blue 18 After Surgery 19 Second Night 21 Age and Creativity 23 Louise Bourgeois, Patrick Pye 24 In 1974 26 Remembrance Day 27 Our Irish Anniversaries, 2016 28 Garden of Remembrance 29 Rebellion 32 Field Hospital, 1917 33 The Passing of Old Ukraine 35 A Don Cossack by the Sea of Marmara 37 How It’s Going to Play Out 39 The Dead of Albuera 41 George Boole 43 North of Duluth 45